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Hot hard drives since installing Ubuntu and Amahi

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 3:13 am
by taichi
Heya, I previously had Fedora+Amahi installed on my NAS and it was working fine. I've now done a rebuild on Ubuntu and my hard drives seem to be suffering. They now sit constantly on 50C/122F. And it doesn't even seem like anything is happening on the drive - no ticking or drive LED, just spinning aimlessly.

Only 1 of my 4 drives has APM so there's nothing to tune there. Any idea's what's going on?

Re: Hot hard drives since installing Ubuntu and Amahi

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:38 pm
by bigfoot65
Hard to say what could be the cause. Have you checked the internet for possible solutions?

Re: Hot hard drives since installing Ubuntu and Amahi

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:28 pm
by taichi
Yeah, I've found a few issues regarding Ubuntu specifically. But pretty much all revolve around laptop power management. Can't find anything related to a persistent system like mine. Or at least nothing I can understand.

From what I can tell setting the APM (advanced power management) on a drive can assist this. But seeing as two of my drives don't have this feature, and since my drives not having a problem on the old Fedora, I just thought I'd throw it out there to see if anyone else is having problems.

Re: Hot hard drives since installing Ubuntu and Amahi

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 3:47 am
by taichi
The plot thickens...

[ 28.702305] udevd[360]: starting version 175
[ 29.364876] parport_pc 00:0a: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[ 29.364942] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[ 29.425614] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 29.460356] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 29.467942] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000460-0x000000000000047f SystemIO conflicts with Region \TCOI 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
[ 29.467967] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 29.467974] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting iTCO_wdt
[ 29.467985] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f SystemIO conflicts with Region \GP2C 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
[ 29.468049] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 29.468215] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
[ 29.539309] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x106ca, pf=0x8, revision=0x107

Re: Hot hard drives since installing Ubuntu and Amahi

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:25 pm
by bigfoot65
Could be a driver issue possibly? I have heard of cases where the OS did not have support for some devices and users has problems.

Just a thought.

Re: Hot hard drives since installing Ubuntu and Amahi

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:55 am
by taichi
Yeah, quite likely drivers. I would have thought an Atom board would be quite common amongst Amahi users, but haven't been able to find any likewise information.

Looks like it is related to the CPU scaling. But I have no idea how to address it. Might just reinstall Fedora, lol.

Re: Hot hard drives since installing Ubuntu and Amahi

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:04 am
by bigfoot65
Might be best if it worked with no problems.